Storks and Their Allies
(Order Ciconiiformes)
Hammerkop
(Family Scopidae)
Hammerkop
(Scopus umbretta)
Storks
(Family Ciconiidae)
Yellow-billed Stork
(Mycteria ibis)
Abdim’s Stork
(Ciconia abdimii)
White Stork
(Ciconia ciconia)
Saddle-billed Stork
(Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis)
Marabou Stork
(Leptoptilos crumeniferus)
I think the description of the Marabou Stork in Collins Guide to African Wildlife is appropriate: "An enormous, ugly bird." The one I photographed was four or five feet tall. It doesn't help its image to know that they are carrion feeders--I didn't know there were any storks that were.
Flamingos
(Family Phoenicopteridae)
Lesser Flamingo
(Phoeniconaias minor)
Greater Flamingo
(Phoenicopterus ruber)
